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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the First Quarter 2012 Huntsman Corporation Earnings Conference Call. My name is Tahisha, and I'll be your operator for today. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host for today, Mr. Kurt Ogden, Huntsman Corporation's Vice President of Investor Relations. Please proceed.

Kurt D. Ogden

Thank you, Tahisha, and welcome to Huntsman's First Quarter 2012 Earnings Call. Joining us on the call today are Jon Huntsman, Executive Chairman and Founder; Peter Huntsman, President and CEO; and Kimo Esplin, Executive Vice President and CFO.

This morning, before the market opened, we released our earnings for the first quarter 2012 via press release and posted it on our website, huntsman.com. We also posted a set of slides on our website which we intend to use on the call this morning in the discussion of our results.